140 HYMENOPTERA. 



punctureil, the sides and a])ical marfjin of the l)asal segment, as 

 well as the margins of the following segments, fringed with pale 

 ochraeeons pnbescencc, the fascia on the first and second inter- 

 rnpted in the middle, beneath densely clothed with dark brown 

 pubescence. 

 Hab. Albania. 



37. OSMIA APICATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head blue-green, the rest of the 

 insect of a bronze-green, the clypeus covered with pale pubes- 

 cence, at the insertion of the antormic a tuft of dark fulvous pu- 

 bescence ; the thorax and three basal segments of the abdomen 

 covered with long jjule fulvous pubescence, on the three apical 

 segments it is black, and beneath is densely clothed with bright 

 fulvous ; the femora fringed with long pale fulvous pubescence, 

 on the tarsi beneath it is bright fulvous; the claw-joints of the 

 tarsi ferruginous, the calcaria pale rafo-testaceous ; wings hya- 

 line, faintly clouded at their apical margins. 

 Hab. Albania. 



38. OSMIA SYBARITA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black, the head and thorax closely 

 and strongly punctured, the mandibles ferruginous at their apex; 

 on each side of the face is a little white pubescence, on the vertex 

 and disk of the thorax it is fulvous ; the wings subhyaline, their 

 apical margins slightly clouded; the posterior legs above have a 

 short white pubescence, on the tarsi beneath it is pale fulvovis, 

 the claws ferruginous ; the abdomen thickly covered with sub- 

 elongate punctures, the apical margins of the segments have a 

 fascia of white pubescence, usually inteiTupted on the two basal, 

 and sometimes also on the third segment ; beneath, the pollen- 

 brush is of a changeable golden lustre. 

 Hab. Albania. 



39. OsMiA Latreillii. B.M. 



Megachile Latreillii, Spin. Ins. Liff. fasc. L p. 3L 12. t. 2. f. 3, $ ; 



fasc. 3. p. 202. 1, <?. 

 Osmia Latreillii, Latr. Enc. Meth. viii. 577. 4. 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii. 317- 5. 

 Lucas, Exj)lo. Sc. Alger, iii. 189. 105. 

 Hab. France ; Italy ; Sicily ; Albania ; Portugal ; Egypt ; Al- 

 geria. 



